Poetry

• Stepping Outside Penumbra Press, 1974 (Chapbook)
• Instructions To The Double Graywolf Press, 1976
• Under Stars Graywolf Press, 1978, ISBN 9780915308194
• Willingly Graywolf Press, 1984, ISBN 9780915308460
• The Hug (1984)
• Amplitude Graywolf Press, 1987, ISBN 9781555970994
• Moon Crossing Bridge Graywolf Press, 1992, ISBN 9781555971564
• I Stop Writing the Poem (1992)
• Portable Kisses Capra Press, 1992, ISBN 9780884963424
• My Black Horse Bloodaxe, 1995, ISBN 9781852243067
• Dear Ghosts, Graywolf Press, 2006, ISBN 9781555974435 -- Poetry Finalist for 2007 Washington State Book Award

Fiction

• The Lover of Horses Harper & Row, 1986, ISBN 9780060914356
• At The Owl Woman Saloon Scribner, 1997, ISBN 9780684826936; Simon & Schuster, 1999, ISBN 9780684847566
• The man from Kinvara: selected stories, Graywolf Press, 2009, ISBN 9781555975371

Essay collections

• A concert of tenses: essays on poetry University of Michigan Press, 1986, ISBN 9780472093700
• Soul Barnacles University of Michigan Press, 2003, ISBN 9780472089123

Other works

• "Dostoevsky: A Screenplay" & "King Dog a Screenplay" (Capra Back-to-Back Series) with Raymond Carver (Paperback - Dec. 1985)
• Words Like Distant Rain (2006)

Anthologies

• "Sudden Journey", The body eclectic: an anthology of poems, Editor Patrice Vecchione, Macmillan, 2002, ISBN 9780805069358